Israel/Palestine Thread

The only thing is they are burning their bridges with most western countries. Lobe oks like the EU have faith with them and Macron is openly telling them to stop the slaughter.

The US are a lost cause. Netanyahu may as well be their President at this point.

Isn't it mad that a random poster on boards.ie understands perfectly Hamas tactics of tricking and forcing the IDF into murdering Palestinian civilians, yet with all their supposed sophistication and intelligence services and technology, the IDF are powerless to stop Hamas from tricking them into committing these atrocities. All the people that they have there as so-called professionals and not one of them can think "Ah hold on lads, lets not fall for that trick again when we actually don't want to be doing the oul' murdering and maiming of tens of thousands of innocent men, women and kids………"

New Recruit: "Hey Captain, how about we tackle these fellas the same way we would as if there was a suspected terrorist cell in Tel Aviv. Like you know, we probably wouldn't flatten all the buildings full of civilians in a 500m radius if that was the case"

Captain: "What, and lose our resolve to murder and maim as many innocent arabs when we have the chance"?

I'd forgotten about that. I got impression the threat to Israel was coming from elsewhere than Gaza now?

(Unless media reporting on it have this wrong) it is first rocket fire deep into Israel Hamas has managed for a long time.

IMO, that would have made it somewhat significant. I'd say it is likely Israelis had tabs on any Hamas leaders they targetted for a while (Gaza must be the most surveilled location on the Earth), just decided now was a good time to do the trade of killing some random "animals" to get the Hamas members as response to the rockets.

It certainly sends a strong message to likes of the ICJ, ICC etc. as well (f-ck you, f-ck your statements, your "laws" etc, we do what we want!).

You must have missed my question on the last page. Do you think Israel has the right to commit war crimes because Hamas hasn't surrendered?

What Israel is arguing is the equivalent of saying this hospital ship is completely valid target for a country at war with America. Their logic is you could sink the ship as long as you kill a Colonel.

I have no idea how the world is standing by and being fooled into this entirely new notion that you can bomb whatever you want in order to get a target. The rules are being thrown out and now the ICC and ICJ have lost all purpose. This hypocrisy and rules that only apply to enemies will have repercussions lasting decades.

Al-Tamimi is retconned into just an innocent journalist these days I'm sure.

Well Israel commits war crimes practically every day so your support of Israel is a bit odd considering you don't approve of war crimes.

You either didn't understand my post or are deliberately misrepresenting what I said. I did not say Palestinians are being persecuted, I said the Israelis are deliberately targeting civilians, journalists, medical workers, aid workers etc. and deliberately destroying infrastructure hence the accusations of genocide and ethnic cleansing. The deliberate targeting is an objective fact and we will have to wait to see what the judgement is on the accusations of genocide. The rest of your post is whataboutery based on the initial strawman so I'm not engaging with it.

Intention to kill innocents in the IDF operation has not been proven.